In 2002, Infinite Energy published a two-part article by Don
Hotson, “Dirac’s Equation and the Sea of Negative Energy”
(Issues 43 and 44). These are available online at:
http://www.zeitlin.net/OpenSETI/Docs/HotsonPart1.pdf
http://www.zeitlin.net/OpenSETI/Docs/HotsonPart2.pdf
As a casual reader of IE at the time the articles first appeared,
I did not pay close attention to the depth of the material;
however, I was motivated to read them more carefully when
Billie Westergard, an astronomer who published an article IE
#68, stated that he thought Hotson’s work might be the best
published in physics. By then, I was a technical editor for IE
and I reread the Hotson articles. First I read them through,
realizing I was missing a lot. Then I studied them, trying to
see the justification for each assertion and came to the conclusion
that Billie Westergard was probably right and these
articles might be the best material written in physics; I went
on to state this in an editorial (IE #69). Don saw my editorial
and said that I “smoked him out of his cave.” That started
a two-year effort that resulted in the third article that is in
this issue.